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2 unusual facts about First lieutenant


Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

On May 1, 1896, Ludwig was given the rank of First lieutenant, and, on March 29, 1900, he was given leadership of the First Tiroler Jäger-Regiment in Innsbruck.

Stefan Michnik

First lieutenant Stefan Michnik born 28 September 1929 in Drogobycz (Drogobych, now Ukraine), is a former Stalinist judge operating in postwar Poland; implicated in the arrest, internment and staged execution of a number of Polish resistance fighters.


Albert F. Pratt

Pratt served with the 14th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry as a first lieutenant in the Spanish–American War and was a major in the Minnesota National Guard, 3rd Infantry for 28 years.

Battle of Telpaneca

At about 1:00 am on September 19, a force of around 200 rebel troops, loyal to Augusto César Sandino, attacked the small garrison of Telpaneca under the command of Marine First Lieutenant Herbert S. Keimling.

Bingham County, Idaho

As a young officer in the Civil War, Bingham rose from lieutenant to brigadier general; he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Wilderness.

Edward Burd Grubb, Jr.

Commissioned as a first lieutenant, he would ultimately be promoted to Captain and served as an aide to Brig. Gen. George W. Taylor during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, where he contracted typhoid and was confined to a hospital ship shortly after the Battle of Malvern Hill.

Frederic René Coudert, Jr.

He joined the Army for World War I, and served as a First Lieutenant in the 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, with overseas service, in 1917 and 1918.

George Washington Emery Dorsey

During the American Civil War, he recruited a volunteer company and entered the Union Army in August 1861 as a first lieutenant in the 6th Regiment West Virginia Infantry.

Haditha killings

First Lieutenant Andrew Grayson was charged with obstruction of justice, dereliction of duty, and making a false statement, while Captain Randy Stone and Captain Lucas McConnell were charged with dereliction of duty.

Harris A. Houghton

In 1911 he received his commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, achieving the position of Post Surgeon at Fort Totten, New York, and a few month later was appointed Post Intelligence Office at this installation.

Henry Christopher McCook

With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant, and helped tend the wounded.

John Quilliam

Captain John Quilliam RN (born Marown, Isle of Man 29 September 1771 - died Michael, Isle of Man 10 October 1829) was a Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Jules Garesche Ord

Jules Garesche "Gary" Ord (September 9, 1866–July 1, 1898) was a United States Army First Lieutenant who was killed in action after leading the charge of Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th U.S. Cavalry up San Juan Hill. History now records that Ord was responsible for the "spontaneous" charge that took the San Juan Heights during the Spanish-American War in Cuba on July 1, 1898.

Mameluke sword

Marine Corps history states that a sword of this type was presented to Marine First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon by the Ottoman Empire viceroy, Prince Hamet, on December 8, 1805, during the First Barbary War, as a gesture of respect and praise for the Marines' actions at the Battle of Derne.

Mendocino Indian Reservation

In the summer of 1857, First Lieutenant Horatio G. Gibson, then serving at the Presidio of San Francisco, was ordered to take Company M, 3rd Regiment of Artillery to establish a military post one and one-half miles north of the Noyo River on the Mendocino Indian Reservation.

Powhatan Henry Clarke

Powhatan Henry Clarke (October 9, 1862 – July 21, 1893) was a United States Army First Lieutenant who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Geronimo Campaign in Sonora, Mexico.

Reduction in rank

Colonel Michael D. Murphy - Demoted to First Lieutenant after being charge with absence without leave; failure to obey order/dereliction of duty; false official statement; larceny; and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) Articles 86, 92, 107, 121, and 133, respectively.

Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr.

He, and two other students in his class, were commissioned to First Lieutenant of the Marine Corps Aviation.

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

When the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army (Joel Snyder, O'Sullivan's biographer could find no proof of this claim in Army records) and, over the next year, was present at Beaufort, Port Royal, Fort Walker, and Fort Pulaski.

Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers

Circa 1738, he joined the Royal Navy and rose through the ranks as a Second Lieutenant in 1741, First Lieutenant in 1746 and Post-Captain soon after.

William Harding Carter

After a year of scouting in the Arizona and New Mexico territories as well as the Mexican state of Sonora during early 1878, Carter won promotion to first lieutenant on April 14, 1879 and took part in the final stages of the campaign against Victorio from June to October 1880.

William M. Wherry

While serving in the American Civil War, as a First Lieutenant of Company D, 3rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry and aide-de-camp to Nathaniel Lyon.


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121st New York Infantry

Colonel Richard Franchot resigned on September 25, 1862 and selected Colonel Emory Upton, at the time a first lieutenant in the Regular army, under whose command the regiment made a record second to none in the Army of the Potomac.

6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

John Tester - served as a first lieutenant- was later a businessman and politician

A. H. J. Prins

Given the rank of first lieutenant, he served in the Intelligence Branch of the General Staff of the 21st Army Group, commanded by Montgomery.

Battle of Ong Thanh

That evening Brigadier General William Coleman and other senior officers of the 1st Infantry Division visited the 2nd Battalion's camp, where they praised Allen's men for their efforts, and presented First Lieutenant Clark Welch—commander of Delta Company—with a Silver Star for his actions earlier in the day.

Bedrule

First Lieutenant of HMS Petard, Anthony Fasson (a native of Lanton, Scottish Borders) died while recovering Enigma code books from a sinking German submarine.

Cadet grades and insignia of the Civil Air Patrol

Upon completing this award, cadets are eligible for direct promotion to First Lieutenant as a Senior Member once they turn 21.

Clergy reserve

Although the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe interpreted Protestant clergy to mean the clergy of Church of England only, by 1824, the Church of Scotland was also granted a share of the projected revenues.

Colin Halkett

Halkett became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1821 and was the first Lieutenant Governor to reside in the St Saviour Government House, still in use today.

Company commander

Some specialized company-sized units, such as aviation companies using the Boeing CH-47 Chinook airframe, are assigned a major as a company commander due to the increased responsibility of such assignments; the platoons which comprise these company are typically commanded by captains rather than lieutenants, with a captain, rather than a first lieutenant, as the company's second-in-command.

Conejos River

The town of Conejos was founded in the 1854 by Lafayette Head, who later became the first lieutenant governor of Colorado.

Douglas T. Jacobson

During this tour of duty he served as executive officer and later commanding officer of Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and was promoted to first lieutenant with date of rank from December 5, 1954.

Gerald Hugh Brabazon

He served under Frederick Dobson Middleton in the North-West Rebellion in 1885, as a first Lieutenant in Dennis's Scouts.

Giuseppe Govone

As a junior staff officer, First Lieutenant Giuseppe Govone took part in the battles of Pastrengo, Peschiera, and Cerlungo.

Guy Hallifax

he joined HMS Britannia in 1899, and in the last war served as first lieutenant and torpedo lieutenant on board H.M.S. Ajax.

Hans Hermann Junge

The following year he died in combat as an SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in a low flying aircraft attack in Dreux, France.

Henrik H Bull

As a first lieutenant in the USAF, Bull was stationed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and worked with Buckminster Fuller on developing the geodesic radar domes for the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) system at the north slope of Alaska.

Henry Ducie Chads

Chads makes a brief appearance, in his heroic role as First Lieutenant of the Java, in the novel The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian.

Henry Knox Sherrill

He later became an Army chaplain, with the rank of First Lieutenant, at Base Hospital 6 in Talence, France.

HMS Dunraven

In recognition, two Victoria Crosses were awarded, one to the ship's First Lieutenant, Lt. Charles George Bonner RNR, and the other, by ballot, to a gunlayer, Petty Officer Ernest Herbert Pitcher.

HMS Lady Shirley

The Captain, Wilhelm Kleinschmidt, was killed in the action with Lady Shirley, along with the First Lieutenant, Junior Officer and five ratings.

James E.C. Perry

After serving in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant, he went on to Columbia Law School where he earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 1972.

James Vashon

He was quickly promoted to first-lieutenant when Lieutenant Peter Rainier (for whom Mount Rainier was named) was promoted and transferred off the Maidstone.

Joachim Degener

Born on 28 November 1893 in Metz, Joachim Degener joined the German military straight from school in 1912, and in the First World War, he was an Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant).

Karina Fabian

Her first assignment was to Signals Intelligence Training in San Angelo, Texas, where she met her future husband, Robert Fabian, a first lieutenant at El Dorado Missile Warning station.

Latrobe

Charles La Trobe (1801–1875), the first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria, Australia, son of C.I. Latrobe

Max Rosenn

Rosenn was an Assistant District Attorney in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1944, and a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1944 to 1946 (in the JAG Corps in the Philippines).

Meade Minnigerode

He represented the United States Shipping Board in France in 1917–1918 and in the year following was first lieutenant with the American Red Cross.

ORP Mazur

The sailor, who although the ship was sinking, still fired until waves washed him overboard was First Lieutenant Jacek Dehnel, grandfather of the famous polish poet and writer Jacek Dehnel.

Patersonia

The genus name is a tribute to the first Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales in Australia, William Paterson.

Pete Jarman

During the First World War, Jarman served overseas as second and first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry.

Philip Cannon

Philip L. Cannon (1850–1929), first Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

Philip H. Gilbert

For four years, Gilbert served in the Confederate Army and was a first lieutenant of the Trans-Mississippi Division.

Prafulla Chaki

His first assignment was to kill Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (1854-1935), the first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

Praia da Vitória

The area of Praia, was one of the first points of colonization on the island of Terceira; the islands first Captain-Donatorio, Jácome de Bruges, along with his first lieutenant, Diogo de Teive, established their residency in Praia.

Prevot Island

Named in memory of First Lieutenant Prevot, commander of the mobile detachment in the operations of the Argentine Air Force unit for Antarctica.

Quilliam

John Quilliam (1771–1829), a British Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar

Ralph U. Hyde

In August, 1922, he was selected to serve aboard the presidential yacht, the USS Mayflower for two years during the term of President Warren G. Harding, as First Lieutenant, Watch and Division Officer, and Gunnery Officer.

Robert William Rankin

Rankin was promoted lieutenant commander in August 1937 and sent to Britain on exchange duty, he was posted to HMS Gleaner, a minesweeper and following courses at HMS Dryad, he was posted to the repair ship HMS Resource as first lieutenant.

Severe Clear

Severe Clear is a 2009 documentary film directed by American documentary maker Kristian Fraga, starring and using footage shot by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti of United States Marine Corps Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion 11th Marines.

Shobal Vail Clevenger, Jr.

Returning soon after the beginning of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and served in the engineer corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant.

Tamara Johansen

First Lieutenant Tamara Johansen, USAF (also known as T.J.) is a fictional character in the Canadian-American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Syfy television series Stargate Universe, a military science fiction serial drama about the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team unable to return to Earth after an evacuation to the Ancient spaceship Destiny, which is travelling in a distant corner of the universe.

Thomas Jefferson Majors

He moved to Peru, Nebraska in 1860 and entered the union army in June 1861 as a first lieutenant of Company C, First Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry.

Volney F. Warner

On August 18, 2005, Warner's granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, was killed in action in Delak, Afghanistan, making her the first female West Point graduate to die in combat.

Whitchurch, Herefordshire

Within the village is the Old Court Hotel which was the ancestral home of the Gwillim family, and was lived in for a while by John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791–1796) and founder of Toronto.

Wolfgang Jörchel

In May 1934, he became a sports leader in the Hitler Youth and also joined the SA remaining an active member until June 1935, when he left only to later join the SS-VT in October 1935, with the rank of Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant).

Yuma War

During a forth operation of the same type, First Lieutenant George Pearce and his men killed three warriors and wounded Chief Pasqual.